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The fundamental nature of moderation on something like Facebook means that moderators have access to a lot of sensitive, personal information and images. If the

by makomk 6y ago

The fundamental nature of moderation on something like Facebook means that moderators have access to a lot of sensitive, personal information and images. If they let moderators take that information home they basically lose any control or ability to stop them from copying it.

hunter2_ 6y ago
If the issue is visually surveiling employees and their computers, can't that be solved for remote work by issuing every employee a camera and tripod to be situated over their shoulder, remotely monitored by whoever was physically monitoring employees on site? If the video feed goes dark, the surveillance operator could trigger a forced shutdown of their laptop (or even better, disconnect their RDP/VDI/etc. session).
- richthegeek 6y ago
  Read up on the psychological problems of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon People are very psychologically affected when they feel they are being constantly observed, especially when that observation is only for punishment. There's a story from an Amazon warehouse recently where a guy had a heart attack and didn't get found for 20 minutes. A few days prior he had put something back in the wrong place and management came to him in 2 minutes. Do you think Facebook overseers would be any different?
CaptainZapp 6y ago
I'm working for a global financial institution in a country, which takes banking secrecy very seriously (such as in criminal offense and jail time seriously). Within two weeks all employees, which weren't not needed at the front line or personally in an office were moved to home office. The company was able to move 10s of thousands of employees in a couple weeks securely and reliably (safe for a few glitches, which are to be expected on that scale). There are reliable solutions to completely segregate what's happening on corporate systems from a simple, employee owned laptop connected from home. Sure, you can make pictures of the screen, but you can do that in the office too. Then again you can just print it, while at the office. Something which you can't do at home. So no, I don't really buy this reasoning for a company fancying itself totally hi-tech.

by makomk 6y ago

hunter2_ 6y ago

If the issue is visually surveiling employees and their computers, can't that be solved for remote work by issuing every employee a camera and tripod to be situated over their shoulder, remotely monitored by whoever was physically monitoring employees on site? If the video feed goes dark, the surveillance operator could trigger a forced shutdown of their laptop (or even better, disconnect their RDP/VDI/etc. session).

richthegeek 6y ago
Read up on the psychological problems of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon People are very psychologically affected when they feel they are being constantly observed, especially when that observation is only for punishment. There's a story from an Amazon warehouse recently where a guy had a heart attack and didn't get found for 20 minutes. A few days prior he had put something back in the wrong place and management came to him in 2 minutes. Do you think Facebook overseers would be any different?

CaptainZapp 6y ago

I'm working for a global financial institution in a country, which takes banking secrecy very seriously (such as in criminal offense and jail time seriously). Within two weeks all employees, which weren't not needed at the front line or personally in an office were moved to home office. The company was able to move 10s of thousands of employees in a couple weeks securely and reliably (safe for a few glitches, which are to be expected on that scale). There are reliable solutions to completely segregate what's happening on corporate systems from a simple, employee owned laptop connected from home. Sure, you can make pictures of the screen, but you can do that in the office too. Then again you can just print it, while at the office. Something which you can't do at home. So no, I don't really buy this reasoning for a company fancying itself totally hi-tech.